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Nearly the Alexandria Domestic Violence Program

The program offers support to victims of domestic violence and their families and friends. Trained volunteers and staff are bachelor 24 hours a 24-hour interval to provide:

• crisis intervention and emotional back up
• advocacy with medical, police force, and court systems
• brusk-term individual and grouping counseling data and referrals

 In add-on to services for individuals, the staff is also available to provide trainings, information, and presentations to local schools and organizations. The Domestic Violence Program offers data and back up for:

• Intimate Partner Violence survivors and their family and friends
• Dating violence
• Stalking victims
• Women and men of any age, race, ethnicity, clearing status, sexual orientation, gender identity, concrete power

Many services are offered in both English and Spanish.  Staff and volunteers use a confidential translation service to back up survivors who speak other languages. View or download  Sexual Assault Middle and Domestic Violence Program Customer Rights and Responsibilities.  Donate to the Sexual Assault Centre Donations volition assist efforts to empower and support families affected by sexual assault.

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Sexual And Domestic Violence Support During COVID-19

COVID-xix is having a dramatic issue on our daily lives. During a crisis like this, the risk for intimate partner and domestic violence increases and may happen at college rates. Survivors are also at an increased hazard for violence and may need additional services.

You are not alone.

The Alexandria Sexual Assault Eye and Domestic Violence Program are open during the COVID-nineteen outbreak. The hotlines are available 24/vii, and advocates are ready to listen and help. Our mission has not changed: nosotros are here to aid people who are experiencing or have experienced violence in the brusque and long term.

We are here 24/7. Phone call us at 703.683.7273 (Sexual Attack Hotline) or 703.746.4911 (Domestic Violence Hotline).  Yous tin can also find confidential crunch support and chat online at The National Sexual Assault Online Hotline.

View or download  Sexual Assault Center and Domestic Violence Plan Client Rights and Responsibilities.

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Resources for Survivors During the COVID-xix Crunch

You tin notice helpful resource and information about sexual assault and domestic violence on this and the Sexual Attack Center webpages year round. In addition, beneath are a selection of resources that may be helpful during the COVID-19 crisis.

General Resource

• For up-to-date health-related information on COVID-19, visit alexandriava.gov/Coronavirus.

• Resources to Meet Basic Needs for Those Impacted by the Coronavirus COVID-19 Response. Learn nearly economical resource and assistance, ranging from food and rental assistance to assistance for pet owners and motorcar payment relief.

•  Your Rights as a Tenant During COVID-19 Outbreak. Learn your rights every bit a tenant and who to call if you are facing eviction.

MASK WEARING FOR SURVIVORS

• Tips for People Who Have Been Choked, Strangled, or Hurt in a Way That Made It Difficult to Exhale.Roofing our faces is uncomfortable for all of us, merely it'southward especially hard for people hurt by their partners. Information technology might seem impossible considering information technology reminds you of what happened or could exist uncomfortable seeing others in masks. This one-page flyer from the Ohio Domestic Violence Network and the Center on Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury covers why it is important tolerate wearing face makes and how to discover ways to reduce the stress or anxiety that you lot might feel wearing a mask.
• Tips on Managing Stress and Internal Upset Caused by Mask Wearing for Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. This 12-page handout from the Ohio Domestic Violence Network explores why we can have a stressful reaction to mask wearing and provides several examples of breathing and grounding that may subtract anxious feelings and trauma reactions when you have to wear a mask in public places.

COPING AND MANAGING STRESS AND ANXIETY

• Coping with COVID-19 Fearfulness and Dubiety (also available in Amharic, Spanish and Arabic). Fear and anxiety about COVID-nineteen can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children. Taking intendance of yourself, your friends and your family unit can assistance you cope with stress. Helping others cope with their stress can also make your community stronger.

• COVID-19 Wellness Resource Guide. A growing list of resources for cocky-care, managing stress and anxiety, and coping resources for individuals, parents, children, families and responders to help with the life changes and heightened stress and anxiety every bit a result of COVID-19.

SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Resource

• Staying Condom During COVID-xix. Learn how to create a condom plan, practice cocky-care and reach out for help.

• Mantenerse seguro durante COVID-19

• How can parents discover safe kid-care in emergencies? Guidance well-nigh how to safely arroyo emergency care needs for children.

• vii Ways Survivors of Sexual Violence Can Do Self-Care When Retraumatized During Tragedy. Useful information during whatsoever high-stress fourth dimension where retraumatization can occur.

• Learn the Basics of Consent. A 2-minute video covering the basics of asking for consent.

•  I Ask for Digital Consent. A 1-minute video illustrating how consent should be a part of your interactions with others when y'all are texting or using social media.

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How Yous Can Help Support Survivors During the COVID-19 Crunch

Have a friend or loved one who is a survivor of sexual set on or domestic violence? Read guidance on how you lot can support them:

• Supporting survivors and victims of sexual set on.

• Supporting survivors and victims of domestic violence.

Participate in online awareness activities and events.

• Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) Day of Action, April 7. Assistance plow social media teal — the color of sexual assault awareness and prevention — by sharing a teal selfie using #SAAM. Teal ribbons, t-shirts, nails, hair, makeup, jewelry, ties and other accessories have been popular items worn in the past. Some folks take even gotten creative and decked their pets out in teal. Wearing teal will serve as a chat-starter for important bug like consent, respect and supporting survivors during this national crisis. You can share the following message with the post: Today is the Sexual Attack Sensation Calendar month Day of Activity, and I'm going teal to show my support for survivors. #SAAM #IAsk

• Denim Solar day, Apr 29.Wear jeans and share photos of your jeans on social media using #DenimDay. Support survivors and brainwash yourself and others about sexual assault. Larn more near the pregnant behind Denim Mean solar day.

• #30DaysofSAAM Instagram Claiming.This online challenge is a dandy way to show your support  for survivors in a time of social distancing. Learn more about the challenge and how you can participate.

Take a quiz:

• Are you a Victim?

• Do Yous Know the Nuts of Consent? An online quiz putting your consent skills to the test.

Donate to the Domestic and Sexual Violence Programs or donate items for the shelter.

Educate yourself and others. Read and share the resources on this page. Learn more than nearly sexual assault and domestic violence and ways you can help:

• Information on COVID-19 for Survivors, Communities and DV/SA Programs

• Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance

• Resources on the Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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What is Domestic Violence?

Domestic violence or intimate partner violence is a design of abusive or coercive behaviors that may include, but are not limited to:

• concrete assaults
• verbal corruption
• economic abuse
• emotional abuse
• sexual corruption
• stalking and/or harassment
• threat or impairment

These behaviors are used by 1 individual toexert power or control over another individual in the context of a family or intimate relationship. This includes relationships such as dating between people who exercise not live together, parent/child (child or elderberry abuse/fail) and persons in same-sex activity relationships. Overwhelmingly, intimate partner violence is perpetrated by men confronting women, but studies show that men are victims too.

In Alexandria solitary, hundreds of women , men and children live in constant terror and hurting equally a result of family violence. The abuse tin can be physical, ranging from slaps and kicks to punching and stabbing; or psychological, including threats or verbal abuse that make a person fear for her or his condom.

View or download a flyer that helps place signs of domestic violence in English language,  Spanish,  Amharic or  Standard arabic and share with your network.

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Are You lot a Victim?

Quiz: How Is Your Relationship? Does your partner:

• Five erbally insult, demean or threaten you lot?
• I solate you lot from friends, family or other people? Practise they get excessively jealous, possessive and/or angry in endeavour to command you?
• O rganize schedules to follow or harass y'all?
• L imit your mobility, access to money and other resource or track your social media?
• E xplode into a rage and calumniating behaviors after using drugs and/or alcohol?
• N egate your words, abilities, ideas and actions?
• C hoke, punch, slap, kick, pull hair, bite, throw things, abuse or damage your personal belongings or force you to have sex?
• Due east xcuse each attack and promise to finish?

If yous answered "yes" to some of these questions, y'all may be in an abusive relationship.

However, you are not lonely. Whether you demand information, support, or a safe identify to stay, the Domestic Violence Program has people who can help.

Call 703.746.4911 (TTY- 703.746.3288) to speak with someone from the Domestic Violence Program well-nigh the services offered.

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Reproductive Coercion Checklist

Questions to consider:

• Am I afraid to enquire my partner to use condoms/nascency control?
• Has my partner ever pressured me to get meaning when I didn't want to?
• Has my partner ever tampered with or thrown away my contraceptives?
• Has my partner ever accused me of not loving them considering I did not want to have sexual practice?
• Does my partner remove condoms during set, or claim that condoms continue breaking during sex?

If you answered "yes" to some of these questions, y'all may exist experiencing reproductive coercion.

However, you are non alone. Whether yous need information, support, or a prophylactic place to stay, the Domestic Violence Program has people who can assistance.

Call 703.746.4911 (TTY- 703.746.3288) to speak with someone from the Domestic Violence Program about the services offered.

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Dating Violence

Early Warning Signs of Dating Violence

These warning signs apply to partners of any age.  These signs do not mean a relationship will definitely turn violent. Nonetheless, if you lot notice several of them in your partner, you may need to reevaluate your dating relationship. These warning signs include:

• Is excessively jealous
• Constantly checks in with yous
• Attempts to isolate you from friends and family unit
• Insults people that you intendance well-nigh
• Is too serious about the human relationship as well quickly
• Has bad prior relationships and blames the problems on the previous partners
• Is controlling- gives y'all orders, tells you what to wear, tries to make decisions for you
• Blames you when he or she treats yous badly by telling you all of the ways y'all provoked it
• Has an explosive temper
• Pressures you into sexual practice with which you lot are not comfy
• Leads you lot to worry about how he/she volition react to the things you say (Fear of provoking your partner)
• Leads you to making excuses or apologizing for his/her beliefs
• Refuses to let yous finish the relationship

Notice these Signs in your Human relationship?
Trust your intuition! If you believe there may exist a problem in your relationship, you are probably right. Practice non ignore the warning signs. It gets worse, not better.

• Spend time with people you lot intendance about other than your partner
• Stay in touch with your friends
• Keep up with activities that you lot enjoy and that make yous feel good well-nigh yourself
• Learn more on this site well-nigh available aid and resource

Call 703.746.4911 (TTY- 703.746.3288) to speak with someone from the Domestic Violence Program about the services offered.

Warning Signs

• Know the Warning Signs of an Abusive Human relationship
• How to Know if Your Teen is in an Unhealthy Relationship

Additional Dating Violence Resources for Parents of Teens

• Honey is Respect
• Futures Without Violence
• CDC Intimate Partner Violence Prevention

Starting the Chat Early

• 10 Tips on Talking About Healthy Relationships with Teens
• Conversation Starters: Dating Abuse
• Conversation Starters: Respectful Relationships
• Talking to Your Young Teen About Friendship and Bullying

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Digital Corruption

Digital abuse is using technology such as texting and social networking to not bad, harass, stalk or intimidate an intimate partner. Ninety-7 pct of domestic violence programs reported the survivors they work with have experienced stalking, harassment, threats and monitoring through the utilise and misuse of engineering. Some signs of possible abuse are:

• Decision-making who tin can and cannot be the partner's friends on social media.
• Sending negative, insulting or threatening messages online
• Using apps to keep tabs on partner
• Pressuring partner to share explicit pictures
• Pressuring partner to share their passwords
• Partner fears penalisation for non replying to texts

Below are some tips on how to keep safety using applied science:

• Technology can assist survivors build connections, certificate abuse and access life-saving resources. Build safer technology practices past checking privacy settings, changing passwords and security questions, and downloading a personal safety app.
• One common way technology is used in domestic violence is to monitor their partner's social media and monitor friends' and families' online posts. Check your privacy settings and consider request friends and family not to tag you in posts or share pictures of you online.
• Survivors are most likely to experience monitoring and harassment through texts, social media and having their computer use monitored. One way to exist safer is to use devices to which only you have access.
• Many survivors report having their accounts accessed without permission. Ii-factor authentication lets you have more control over how your accounts are accessed. Consider setting information technology up for all your personal accounts.

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Protection Orders

What is a Protection Club?

A Protection Order is a civil order that can:

• lodge the respondent (abusive partner) to refrain from acts of family unit abuse against yous
• prohibit contact between the respondent and you, including in person, phone, electronically and/or mail service contact
• give y'all temporary possession of your residence
• grant y'all possession of a jointly owned automobile
• order the respondent to stay abroad from you lot, your children or any family members including pets
• order the respondent to stay away from your residence and/or place of employment
• order the respondent into a counseling program

Who tin get a Protection Order?

• Protection orders are designed for people who are experiencing stalking or family abuse. Family abuse is any human action of violence, strength, or threat, including whatsoever forceful detention, which results in physical injury or places 1 in reasonable apprehension of serious actual injury and is committed past a family or household fellow member.
• If you are related or married to/divorced, living together in the concluding 12 months or have children in common with the abuser, yous are eligible to utilise for a protection order in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

Please contact 703.746.4911 (TTY- 703.746.3288, Virginia Relay 711) for more information nearly protective orders.

Kinds of Protective Orders (Three types)

• Emergency Protective Orders (EPO)
  • tin be requested by the police or petitioner (the victim of intimate partner violence) at time of the incident
  • can be requested any 24-hour interval or time by a magistrate
  • valid for 72 hours or until 5 p.m. the next 24-hour interval that courtroom is in session
• Preliminary Protection Orders (PPO)
  • petitioned in theJuvenile & Domestic Relations Courtroom or General Commune Court, depending on the type of relationship  valid 15 days and must be personally served on respondent to be enforceable
• Protection Order (PO)
  • entered past the judge at the final hearing after the initial PPO expires
  • valid up to two years from date of issuance and must be served on respondent past law enforcement to be enforceable
  • valid in all fifty states and US territories, and then wherever you go, you must carry it with you.

How to get a Protection Guild:

Protection Orders are free. There is no charge for petitioning for a protection order, filing copies of a protection society, or having the society served on the abuser.

I-Can is a estimator program that asks questions and completes the correct courtroom forms. The completed forms must be taken to the Court Services Unit that serves the appropriate Juvenile & Domestic Relations District Court.  Click here for theNet-Based System for Filing Protective Orders.

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Safety Plan

A prophylactic programme is a tool designed to help a victim consider options and develop a plan of action when living in an calumniating relationship. Safety planning should always exist done without the abuser's noesis and should include the children and pets (if possible). Hither are some key points to include in your personal safety plan:

• Telephone call a shelter or family violence hotline, 703.746.4911 (TTY- 703.746.3288), and talk to an advocate to find out what aid is available to you and to aid y'all with your prophylactic program.
• Have money, clothes, (copies of) important papers, and actress keys, curtained in a safe place in example you demand to exit in a bustle. A safe identify may include a neighbour or friend's business firm, or hidden by the front door.
• Think through all possible escape routes and a plan where yous will go before an attack starts.
• Do emergency drills with your children. Teach them how to dial 911.
• If you take a protective order, acquit it with you at all times. Make extra copies and if yous tin, give it to your employer, the schoolhouse, and/or your residential management company.
• Talk to neighbors, co-workers, etc. about your state of affairs and work out a betoken so they know when to call police. A indicate can be verbal or non-exact.
• Many abusers stem their victims through technology, like GPS devices, shared accounts and/or social media. Consider your use of technology and acquire more almost applied science safety.
• Trust your own judgment and intuition. Read The Souvenir of Fear, by Gavin de Becker.
• Y'all have to protect yourself until you lot are out of firsthand danger.
• Leaving your partner tin can be a dangerous time, plan for condom carefully and always remember ...You don't deserve to exist hit or threatened!

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Domestic Violence Support Groups

Although every domestic violence situation is different, domestic violence survivors and those currently in an abusive human relationship may find information technology helpful to talk near their feelings with others who are going through similar experiences. Our confidential group meets weekly and addresses a multifariousness of issues related to domestic violence in a caring and nurturing environment. In that location is too a children's support group that meets concurrently with the women's group. Please call the Domestic Violence Program at 703.746.4911 if you are interested in attending the support grouping. The location of both groups is confidential.

Who?    Women who are residents of the Urban center of Alexandria
What?   Confidential weekly support group sessions for survivors of domestic violence or those currently in
an abusive relationship.
When?   Please telephone call for details.
Where? Please contact 703.746.4911 (TTY- 703.746.3288) for information.
Why?     To understand the affect of violence on your relationship and on you.
To learn tools to empower y'all and keep you safe.
To share your experiences with others.
To be supported as you motion frontwards with your life.

24-Hour Domestic Violence Hotline:  703.746.4911  (TTY-703.746.3288 )

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Domestic Violence & Children

Family violence affects children from every income level, race and religion. Witnessing or hearing violence among family members damages children and as a result many children develop serious physical and mental health problems. They may have learning difficulties, troubled relationships with adults and peers and be at risk for suicide.

What is information technology like for children growing up in a violent home?

These children are in danger and their homes are in chaos. They live in daily fearfulness and tension, which can cause them to be afraid of everything–and trust no ane. The children ofttimes arraign themselves for the violence, just they are powerless to prevent, stop or escape it. Some children will develop a love-hate relationship with parent(southward). Though they experience protective of an driveling parent, they may too resent that parent for non stopping the abuse. They are oft isolated and feel hopeless.

Alert signs of a kid living in a trigger-happy home include:

For all ages...

• behaving overly responsible (as if the child is the "trivial adult in the family")
• low and low-self-esteem
• difficulty expressing emotions other than anger
• use of violence to solve conflicts

For preschool children...

• frequent crying
• stuttering
• frequent hitting, bitter or kicking
• regression (a return to bed-wetting or thumb sucking)

For school-age children...

• trouble concentrating at school
• fighting, bullying or self-abuse
• stealing, adulterous or lying
• unusual knowledge of sex activity or violence for their age

For teenagers...

• talking most or attempting suicide (can likewise be true for school-historic period children)
• running away or dropping out of school
• joining a gang, committing crimes or using weapons
• calumniating relationships

How can you help?

• promote nonviolence past discouraging children from fighting and teasing
• teach children how to handle conflict without violence
• teach personal condom rules like how to dial 911, escape routes and safe places to become if there is a fight

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Children's Services

The Domestic Violence Programme offers a Children'south Plan in which a family services specialist is available to provide curt-term individual counseling to children living in calumniating homes. A children's support grouping is offered and runs concurrently with the women's support group. This group provides children, who share their circumstances, an opportunity to meet and talk. For children whose mother'due south have relocated to the battered women's shelter, the family services specialists available on-site for back up and counseling.

Note: If you doubtable child corruption or fail, report this immediately to Child Protective Services or the police force. Even if you are unsure about the abuse, study it. Every bit long as you brand the report in good faith, your rights are protected and y'all may save a child'south life!

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Friends and Family of Survivors

Become Informed

Gather all of the information you tin can near domestic violence. Cheque out this website and its links. Y'all may also contact the Alexandria Domestic Violence Program at 703.746.4911, which assists battered persons and their children.

Lend A Sympathetic Ear

Let your friend know you intendance. Don't forcefulness the issue; allow the friend to confide in you at her/his step. Continue your mind open.Never blame your friend!

Guide Her/Him to Community Services

Share the information you lot have gathered with her/him privately. Let your friend know she/he is not alone and caring people are available to help. Encourage the friend to seek assistance at a local domestic violence hotline or plan. Encourage your friend to develop a rubber plan to protect her/himself and children.

Focus on His/Her Strengths

Give your friend the emotional support she/he needs to believe she/he is a practiced person. Assistance your friend examine strengths and skills she/he possess. Emphasize she/he deserves a life costless from violence.

If She/He Decides To Leave

The first place your friend should call is a domestic violence hotline. They can help your friend examine the options bachelor.

Be conscientious when offering and providing rubber in your dwelling. The battered person oftentimes faces the most physical danger when southward/he attempts to flee. Be unimposing and talk to domestic violence program staff about the all-time way to handle this.

What To Say When Your Friend Says She/He Can't Leave

• I am afraid for your safe.
• I am afraid for the rubber of your children.
• It will but go worse.
• I am here for you when you lot are ready to leave.
• You don't deserve to be driveling.

When To Arbitrate

Intimate partner violence is a crime that can consequence in serious physical injury and even death. If you are a neighbor and know that an abusive incident is occurring, call the police immediately. Calling the police is but the most effective style to protect the victim and children from immediate harm.

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Family Violence in the Workplace

What is Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence?

• A pattern of abusive, coercive and violent behavior between people who are married or living together, or who have an ongoing or prior intimate relationship.
• Includes physical assaults and psychological threats as well equally exact abuse and economic control that make a person fear for her or his safety.

Why should businesses care?

• Intimate partner violence is estimated to cost up to $five billion a yr in reduced productivity and absenteeism - costs absorbed by the company.
• Companies are at gamble for increased liability for the safety of both workplace and employees.
• From a survey of senior executives in Fortune k companies, information technology is reported that 66 percent believe if family violence issues were addressed with employees, the visitor'southward fiscal performance would improve.
• The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that in threescore,000 incidents of on-the-job violence, the victims knew their attackers intimately.

Workplace Warning Signs

• Unexplained bruises of defensive injuries
• Increased absenteeism
• Increased threatening and/or harassing phone calls
• Lack of concentration and decreased work performance
• Lack of interest in social activities and being withdrawn with co-workers
• Employee's partner visits the workplace and spreads rumors, tries to gather information about their partner from the victim's colleagues and/or excessively contacts the employee
• Personal visits to the workplace that are disruptive and/or frequent

What your company tin can do

• Make it safety for the victim to talk to someone in your organization. Telling someone is the showtime step towards getting help.
• Constitute policies and procedures that accost family violence. Remember family violence can as well mean a threat to workplace security.
• Presentations on this upshot are available. Telephone call 703.746.4911 for information.

What managers and supervisors can do

• Exist enlightened of any visible warning signs.
• Offer referrals with domestic violence or intimate partner violence services.
• Assistance to create a workplace safety plan.
• Exist sure to respect the employee's privacy. This is a very difficult fourth dimension and confidentiality is important.
• Attend Family Violence issues preparation.

Workplace Safety Plan

Creating a condom programme for the workplace tin exist an effective tool for both the employer and employee. Here are a few suggestions to include:

• I can inform ____________ at work of my state of affairs. (My dominate, security, a co-worker)
• I tin give a photo of the abuser and a description of the car to ____________.
• I can motility my work space to a more secure surface area.
• Rubber places at work to escape to are ____________.
• I tin employ phonation mail, a receptionist, or a co-worker to screen my calls at piece of work.

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Protecting Your Family Pet

Intimate partner abuse crosses all categories, even pets. Animal cruelty is oftentimes an early warning sign of violent tendencies that may plow into intimate partner violence. Several contempo surveys indicate that nearly half of all women entering intimate partner violence shelters reported that a pet had also been threatened, injured or killed past their abuser.

If y'all are a victim, your pet may have been hurt, or is in danger of being hurt. Oft an abuser volition injure the family pet as a way to gain power and control. If your abuser has harmed your pet, y'all may be in increasing danger of beingness injure yourself. If animal abuse is happening in your home, you should consider leaving however,your pet should non be left in the habitation if you exercise decide to leave.

How You Can Protect Your Family Pet

It'southward very of import to accept an emergency shelter plan for your pet also every bit for yourself and for your children. If you have a pet, ask yourself the following questions earlier leaving a violent situation (Taken from The Humane Lodge of the United States, Beginning Strike Campaign):

• Who volition requite my pet nutrient, h2o, shelter, companionship, and medical care? Make arrangements with a friend or family member to intendance for your pet, before you exit. If no one tin do this, get in touch with the Alexandria Domestic Violence Program, who will aid yous in placing your pet temporarily with the Alexandria Creature Welfare League. Residue bodacious, your pet will exist able to stay with the local animal shelter for upwardly to x days and will be provided with food, water, and lots of love, while you concentrate on other important decisions affecting your time to come.
• Is my pet up to engagement on all of its vaccinations? Veterinarian clinics, kennels, and the animal shelter require proof of vaccination for boarding. If you don't accept proof, they may vaccinate your pet and charge you for it. Go on vaccination and other veterinary records together so yous can have them with you. If you don't have these records, ask your veterinarian to send you copies. If your pet is not current on its vaccinations, make arrangements with your veterinarian or the local Beast Welfare League for low-toll vaccinations.
• Does my pet have a current license with the Urban center? If your pet's rubber is at gamble and is licensed nether the abuser'south name, re-license your pet in the name of whoever is caring for it. This will prevent the abuser from using the license as proof of ownership to merits the brute.
• Would my pet exist better off if I put it up for adoption? Giving up a beloved pet is a difficult decision, but information technology may be best for both of y'all. It is expensive to relocate and not all landlords have pets, or they may charge an additional security deposit. Realizing that your pet is safer in a new habitation tin make the decision a little easier. While animal shelters cannot guarantee to place every animal, they practice discover permanent homes for many animals. Information technology is easier for shelter staff to find a dwelling house for your pet if they have certain information. Is the beast housetrained, obedience trained, good with children or other animals? Likewise, they will demand to know your pet's medical history, behavior, and its likes and dislikes. To ease that pain of separation, y'all may want to have photos of your pet for you and your children to go on.
• What should I take when I move my pet to prophylactic? Some emergencies allow for petty or no preparation. However, if yous are able to gear up for your pet'due south departure, endeavour to have the post-obit on paw: vaccinations and medical records; collar and identification tags; leashes; carriers; your pet'southward medication; data on feeding schedules, daily walks, likes and dislikes, and any behavior problems; and your pet's favorite personal items (bowls, bedding, grooming supplies, and toys).

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Domestic Violence Intervention Projection (DVIP) A Coordinated Community Response

Mission
The Domestic Violence Intervention Projection (DVIP) is dedicated to promoting safe and healthy relationships through community coordination.

Purpose
All residents of the City of Alexandria are affected past domestic violence. Because domestic violence occurs in all areas of our customs, there is a need for a coordinated community response. DVIP addresses arrest, prosecution, victim advocacy, treatment, didactics, and training.

Goals
The goals of DVIP are to coordinate and monitor the response of the legal arrangement and the community to family violence incidents in Alexandria, Virginia. Specifically, our goals are:

• to ensure that victims are provided with effective protection and services
• to come across that assailants are held accountable for illegal behavior; and
• to increment community awareness of family violence

Participating Agencies (not inclusive)

• Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS)
• Alexandria INOVA Hospital
• Court Services Unit of measurement
• Section of Community & Human Services
• Burn Department
• Health Section
• Legal Services of Northern Virginia
• Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney
• Office of Housing
• Role of the Magistrate
• Function of Probation and Parole
• Office of Sheriff
• Private Citizens
• Police Department
• Social Services
• Finish Child Abuse Now (Browse)
• Substance Corruption Services
• Victim Witness Assistance Plan (VWAP)

Your participation is needed! If you would like to attend our monthly DVIP meeting, or accept a proposition to improve the coordinating council and Alexandria'due south response to domestic violence, please contact 703.746.4911 for meeting times and data.

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How to Help the Domestic Violence Program

• Donate to the Domestic Violence Program
  Donations will aid efforts to empower and support families affected past intimate partner violence.
• Donate items from our Wish Listing -  Shelter Wish List
• Volunteers are an integral part of the Domestic Violence Programme. Later on a comprehensive training course, volunteers may become client advocates. Volunteers reply the 24-hour hotline on weekends. They provide emotional support and data to assist victims in regaining control of their lives. Volunteers too accompany victims of domestic assail to the constabulary department and/or infirmary. If you are interested in more data about volunteering, call 703.746.4911 and ask to speak to the volunteer coordinator or submit a volunteer application. .
• Home-Warming Basket from Alexandria Crime Prevention Quango and Neighborhood Watch Captains
• Annual Domestic Violence Program Children's Holiday Party
  Every December, the Alexandria Domestic Violence Program (DVP) organizes a Holiday Political party for children and parents who have been recently served past the plan. At the party, the families reunite with past shelter friends and staff, eat and accept pictures with Santa Claus, amid other activities. Each parent and child too receives a pocketbook of gifts to wrap and place under their own tree on Christmas Day. More than 100 families wait frontwards to this exciting event.

  The political party was cancelled this year due to the pandemic, butDVP invites you to support these children past donating souvenir cards to local stores in denominations of $25. DVP will give the gift cards to families so they will have the opportunity to buy something special for themselves or their children. To promote prophylactic gift-giving, DVP prefers donations of souvenir cards but is too accepting new, unwrapped children's toys; DVP will provide families with wrapping newspaper to personalize each kid'southward souvenir. Donations can exist sent to 123 N. Pitt Street, Suite 225, Alexandria VA or dropped off at that location past appointment by calling 703.746.4911. The deadline for drib-off or delivery of gift cards or unwrapped new toys isDec fifteen. You lot tin can also donate directly to the Domestic Violence Program online.

  If you need help deciding what to purchase, or if you have any other questions about donating for this outcome, call 703.746.4911.

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Silent Witness Project and Candlelight Vigil

Each year, in Market Square, in front end of City Hall at 301 King Street, the Domestic Violence Program holds the  Silent Witness Candlelight Vigil, an annual event during which nosotros remember and award all those who have died, or are even so suffering, due to acts of intimate partner violence.

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Shower for the Shelter

Alexandria Domestic Violence Condom House

More than 50 women assisted each yr! Not only do we provide shelter,  but a gift basket of items when women get out the Rubber House and showtime their new life. Shower for the Shelter will assistance "restock the shelves" of items needed for the Condom House and for gift baskets.

All you need to do is find something you would like to purchase, add information technology to your cart, check out, and your items will be shipped to usa. Your help is greatly appreciated for this extremely worthy cause. Gently used household and clothing items, gift cards, and cash donations/debit cards are too welcome.

View items to Aid the Alexandria Domestic Violence Safe House

Friends of the Alexandria Commission for Women
2308 Mt. Vernon Avenue, #732
Alexandria, VA  22301

Questions? Contact  pmiller1806@comcast.internet

Charity Registry Sponsored by the Alexandria Commission for Women and Friends of the Alexandria Commission for Women; on behalf of the Department of Community and Homo Services Domestic Violence Program.

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Resource, Reading Lists & Related Links

Resources in Virginia

City of Alexandria

• Alexandria Domestic Violence Program: 703.746.4911 (TTY- 703.746.3288, Virginia Relay 711)
• Alexandria Sexual Assail and Awareness Program: 703.683.7273

Arlington County

• Arlington Customs Temporary Shelter (TACTS) Safehouse: 703.237.0881
• Arlington Violence Intervention Program: 703.228.4848
• Arlington Batterer's Intervention Program: 703.228.4848
• Ethiopian Community Development Council: 703.685.0510, ext.265 or 512.537.5566

Fairfax County

• Fairfax County Women's Shelter: 703.435.4940
• Fairfax Canton Victim'south Assistance Network: 703.360.7273
• Adapt (Fairfax County Men's Program): 703.968.4000

Fredericksburg

• Rappahannock Council on Domestic Violence: 540.373.9373
• Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assail: 540.371.1666

Loudoun County

• Loudoun County Abused Women's Shelter: 703.777.6552

Prince William County

• ACTS.Turning Points (Prince William Co.. Manassas City, Manassas Park, Woodbridge): 703.221.4951
• Prince William Canton Sexual Set on and Victim's Advocacy (SAVAS): 703.368.4141

Resources Exterior of Virginia

Maryland & District of Columbia

• Business firm of Ruth (DC): 202.347.2777
• My Sister'south Identify (DC): 202.529.5991
• Montgomery County (Md): 301.654.1881
• Prince George'due south County (Dr.): 301. 864.9101
• Ethiopian Customs Development Council: 703.685.0510, ext.265 or 512.537.5566

Land/National hotlines

• Family Violence & Sexual Assault Virginia Hotline:  i.800.838.8238 (Voice/TTY)
• National Heart for Victims of Crime Hotline: (800) FYI-Call
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: (Vocalisation) (800) 799-SAFE, (TTY) 1.800.787.3224

Recommended Reading Lists

• Domestic Violence 
• Stalking 

Related Links

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Domestic Violence

• Ayuda (System that helps immigrant women) 
• District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic Violence
• Ethiopian Customs Evolution Council
• Family Violence Prevention Fund
• Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence 
• National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 
• National Domestic Violence Hotline 
• National Network to End Domestic Violence 
• Office of Violence Against Women (DOJ) 
• Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence 
• Women Watch: The UN Internet Gateway for the Advancement and Empowerment of Women 
• Virginians Against Domestic Violence
• Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resources Center (SPARC)
• Victim Connect Resource Center
• Stalking and Harassment Assessment and Take chances Profile (Precipitous)

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